Dan Romero on Farcaster

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Why don't you clean up "the bots"? Useful to be precise here: "bots" is a catch all term that people use to describe low effort, uninteresting or otherwise off-topic content. However, a "bot" is traditionally thought of as a programmatic account, i.e. controlled by a script or software. e.g. bot net When people on Farcaster refer to "bots" they are more often referring to actual people using a mobile device (with the aid of translation tools and ChatGPT) who post uninteresting content (from their pov). They are casting and replying in hopes of appearing to be a "real account" because they have learned that turns into a future economic reward in crypto. Recent tipping meta has increased the expected value of these accounts. It's possible to algorithmically label these accounts, but then you create a "shadowban" meta. So you massively increase the number of support messages and complaints. This was the state of the world before priority mode.

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We're going to keep iterating here, but our pov is: 1. Priority mode works pretty well out of the box 2. We need to offer ways for actual interesting accounts to break through 3. We'll likely bring back some version of spam labeling since priority mode has created it's own set of customer support complaints. "Why don't you just use onchain signals?" a. Based on our waitlist last year of 300K sign ups, "bots" have plenty of Ethereum addresses with assets. b. Most new users don't want to connect an address during sign up (friction, doesn't work well on mobile). So you'll miss out of on good accounts. c. Active onchain presence != you regularly post interesting content. There are some people of course, but plenty of examples otherwise.

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The biggest problem for Farcaster is supply of quality content. We need people here to post more.

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Nah idk tbh bro😂 We got a lot of good casters, some of ‘em are still stuck at the “lemme farm this bish” stage. This problem is in the people, not in Farcaster.

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Focusing on content

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This is literally our mission with /powerfeed ! Every week we host themed challenges where people cast on non-crypto stuff and get rewarded for this! While we’re still iterating to find out the proper mechanics, appreciate any feedback / ideas on making it better :)

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Sure the problem is not to post more, but more quality. Because of the tips, bounties and so on, we have so many farming posts without any cultural value, just pure farming. I don't have a solution, I only see that collateral downside of an otherwise great tipping system.

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Message received!

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How is my account considered a bot I’ve had powerbadge for a while, lost it due to not being active during Father’s Day weekend! Kinda upsetting! Ngl!!

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The biggest problem for farcaster is powerbadge system

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We’re trying to do our part 🫡

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I think it’s a fine line different for each type of content and channel - how much is too much 🤷‍♂️

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lots of great casters leave for various reasons, but a common one is that new accounts struggle to get and engagement at all you can spin up a fresh Reddit account as a burner and go viral no problem that doesn't seem to happen here part of it is obviously that there's not enough users, but non PB discovery is awful idk how the backend works, but surely there must be cast-level metrics you can use to identify and surface good casts from e.g. channels we follow something like the rising feed option on Reddit could help users find new interesting casts too

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